ProfileProviderCollection Class
A collection of objects that inherit the ProfileProvider abstract class.
System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderCollection
System.Configuration.SettingsProviderCollection
System.Web.Profile.ProfileProviderCollection
Namespace: System.Web.Profile
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
The ProfileProviderCollection type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Count | Gets the number of providers in the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| IsSynchronized | Gets a value indicating whether access to the collection is synchronized (thread safe). (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| Item | Returns the profile provider referenced by the specified provider name. |
| SyncRoot | Gets the current object. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Add | Adds a profile provider to the collection. (Overrides SettingsProviderCollection.Add(ProviderBase).) |
| Clear | Removes all items from the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| CopyTo | Copies the contents of the collection to the given array starting at the specified index. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetEnumerator | Returns an object that implements the IEnumerator interface to iterate through the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Remove | Removes a provider from the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| SetReadOnly | Sets the collection to be read-only. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| ICollection.CopyTo | Copies the elements of the ProviderCollection to an array, starting at a particular array index. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.) |
The profile providers for an application are exposed as a read-only ProfileProviderCollection through the Providers property of the ProfileManager class. You can access a specific profile provider in the collection by name and cast it as the specific provider type, such as SqlProfileProvider. This enables you to manage user profile properties from multiple data stores in a single application. It also allows you to access members of a specific profile provider that are not members of the ProfileProvider abstract class.
The following code example lists the providers enabled for an application and their respective types.
<%@ Page Language="C#" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Profile" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.Configuration.Provider" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title>List Enabled Providers</title> </head> <body> <% foreach (ProviderBase p in ProfileManager.Providers) Response.Write(p.Name + ", " + p.GetType() + "<br />"); %> </body> </html>
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
